Archive for March, 2008

Dating with disabilities

Friday, March 14th, 2008

DG reader Sherri asks:
I recently met a man online who had one arm. We talked on email and by phone for about a month before meeting because we live 60 miles apart. When I finally met him, he was cute, funny, smart — but I could not get past the disability, which was more [...]

DG interview on dating after 40

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Recently I was interviewed by Ronnie Ann Ryan, dating coach and author of MANifesting Mr. Right, who specializes in helping woman 40 and over find love, for her interview series “Decoding Dating.” Ronnie and I share many of the same attitudes about dating and methods for meeting prospects. We had a very fun conversation. She [...]

Clothes make the man

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Nearly eighteen months ago a man sent me an email on a dating site where I wasn’t a member. Although he was in the right geographic, age and height range, his pictures showed an unsmiling, sunglasses-wearing, goatee-sporting man in a sports-team T-shirt holding up a newspaper with an unreadable headline. Huh? This is the best [...]

Edelman pays its coworkers to go on a “date”

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Is Edelman encouraging fraternization? Helping relieve the stress of single workers trying to find a mate by pairing them with each other? Starting an internal dating service for their nearly 3,100 employees worldwide?
No. They’re using the dating concept with a unique spin.
The new Blind Date program begins this week. While it might kindle some romance, [...]

Getting to know a man through Google

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

A new man contacted me who held some allure so I promptly did a Google search, armed only with his profile’s unusual alias and his city. A wealth of information was divulged.
I read the posting he’d made in public forums so could see his comments were thoughtful, articulate, and had correct spelling and punctuation. I [...]